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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 3
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Job curses the day and services of his birth.  He asks: Why died I not from the womb.
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After</span> this opened Job his mouth, and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">cursed</a> his day.
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And Job spake, and said,
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Let the day <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Despair.">perish</a> wherein I was <sup>b</sup><a href="job/3/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 14 (14-18).">born</a>, and the night <i>in which</i> it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 23: 4; Ps. 44: 19; Ps. 107: 14 (10, 14); D&C 57: 10.">shadow</a> of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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<i>As for</i> that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but <i>have</i> none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my <i>mother’s </i>womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 10: 18 (18-19).">died</a> I not from the womb?  <i>why</i> did I <i>not</i> give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Why did the knees <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB receive.">prevent</a> me?  or why the breasts that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB who rebuilt ruins.">which</a> built desolate places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants <i>which</i> never saw light.
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There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling; and there the weary be at <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Paradise.">rest</a>.
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<i>There</i> the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant <i>is</i> free from his master.
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Wherefore is <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 67.">light</a> given to him that is in <sup>b</sup><a href="job/3/20b" mark="b" type="C" title="D&C 122: 7 (1-7); TG Suffering.">misery</a>, and life unto the bitter <i>in</i> soul;
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Which long for <sup>a</sup><a href="job/3/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 9: 6.">death</a>, but it <i>cometh</i> not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, <i>and</i> are glad, when they can find the grave?
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<i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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